5+ Ways To Watch The Tour De France

Okay, so we’re a tad late on this one. The Tour de France began earlier today out of Brest, Valverde raised his fists in triumph, and we haven’t told the cycling fans among you how to watch the action....

French Culture Minister, Albanel, wants to reduce piracy from 80%

Christine Albanel, the Culture Minister, plans to reduce internet piracy thanks to HADOPI law. "We can't irradicate 100% of internet piracy. But reduces internet piracy from 70 to 80% should be great." she said. ADA...

'Internet Metering' Might Hit Major US Providers

Internet metering - that is, throttling of users based on what kind of data someone downloads or how much of it - might become a normal part of internet life, says a column in the New York Times. Comcast, AT&T...

P2P Bill of Rights: Whose Rights?

The P2P Bill of Rights doesn't seem to have any actual input from users- I'm unsure how this is anything but a PR exercise."Comcast announced Tuesday that it would work with Pando Networks to develop a "P2P Bill of...

MusicBlob » Hey, there’s pirate music in my Qtrax…! A Musicblob exclusive

"The last find about that improbable digital distributor called Qtrax happened here at Musicblob this morning: there’s apparently pirate music in Qtrax (!)."

The Beatles to Hit iTunes

All you need is love... and four hundred million dollars. Until this agreement, pretty much the only way to download Beatles choons was to steal them. Big news for Apple... both the Apple tech company and the Apple...

Paulo Coelho: Free Books for Online Alchemy

So giving it away is not just for those wanting to get the word out... The movers and shakers of the literary world are getting onboard as well, including Paulo Coelho:"Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author of “The...

Easy way to share specific folders on your PC with others

Private file sharing between friends is the new big thing. Here's a step by step tutorial to help you share specific folders on your PC with your friends (and vice versa): (Before you begin, you need to go to www.gigatribe.com and download the free...

Public prosecutors refuse to collect IP address-related information from prov...

"On the grounds of "obvious disproportionateness" the Local Court (AG) in Offenburg had on July 20 prohibited the local public prosecutor's office from requesting that a provider reveal the personal data that match the IP addresses of alleged P2P network users. Offering a few...

Peer to Peer Drive-In: Art Videos in Vancouver

This Friday night, July 27th, in Vancouver, in connection with Upgrade! Vancouver and Upgrade! International, I'm presenting an outdoor screening of short art videos from Vancouver and Scotland. The event is designed...

Detenidos tres administradores web que ofrecían la descarga de películas el...

La policía ha detenido a tres administradores de varias páginas web, que ofrecían en primicia la descarga de películas cinematográficas el mismo día de su estreno, con lo que obtuvieron beneficios de más de 30.000 euros y causaron perjuicios a los titulares de los...

Congress: P2P networks harm national security

Firstly, why are government employees able to install their own software on government machines?  And even if they can, there is software that can wipe the drive and reinstall a clean OS image on each reboot, or at least every day.Secondly, why can't the unwanted traffic...

Will everything on the web one day be free?

I ask this question because I think we may well be inching closer to a point where lots of web services will be free. I say free, but what I really mean is advert-supported. But that's still free, isn't it? I thought about making this into a huge analysis of a possible...

Ohio University Bans File Sharing

Ohio U. is pre-empting the pre-lawsuits that are spamming up university inboxes across the nation."While some universities have fought back against RIAA complaints about their students using file sharing for making unauthorized copies of content, it appears that Ohio...

Tila Tequila and the Future of DIY Music

The article below details the rise and fall (it all happened so quickly!) of Tila Tequila's single. For those of us who don't know, Ms. Tequila is the gal with the largest number of "friends" on MySpace, which got her the cover of MAXIM Magazine-- it helps if you look like...

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